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Unit 4 Wildlife Protection Reading: How Daisy Learned To Help Wildlife

Teaching objectives: 1）Learn and master the following words and phrases: wildlife, decrease, reserve, mosquito, insect, contain, appreciate, in danger of, in

relief, burst into laughter, pay attention to. 2）Cultivate the student’s reading skills: skimming, scanning. 3）Through group work, cultivate the students’ spirit of cooperation and mutual assistance. Encourage them to share the experience of learning English. 4）Learn to understand the importance of protecting wild animals, at the same time, give a further thinking about how to take measures to protect endangered wildlife. Teaching important and difficult points: Important points: 1) Let students know some wildlife protection in present situation, think of the importance of protecting wild animals, understand the importance of harmony between man and nature at the same time. 2) Let students read the text quickly, cultivate students’

ability of skimming .Training students how to process information and use the information to analyze problems. Difficult points: 1) Let students introduce the survival of wildlife and what measures should be taken in English more fluently. 2) How to let students make an effective group discussion and how to improve

efficiency of group discussion.

Teaching method: 1.Using multimedia to elicit the theme of this class “Wildlife Protection”, improve the students’ interest in learning English. 2. Through listening, question, pair-work, group discussion, let students understand that the living environment of wild animals has become worsening and the protection of wild animal is urgently needed. Teaching aids:

Multimedia, a blackboard Teaching procedures: Step1 lead-in: 1. Show students a short video and then answer two questions.

1) How many kinds of animals mentioned in it?

2) What happened to them? 2. According to the video about three kinds of endangered animals, let the students talk about the reasons why these animals are dying out. Step 2 pre-reading: Look at the two pictures on the page26 and the title of the passage then guess what the passage is about without reading it. Step3 while-reading: 1. Fast-reading: 1. Who took Daisy to travel? 2. Where did Daisy go? 3. What animals did she meet?

A flying carpet

First visit Second visit Third visit

2. Careful-reading: Read the passage carefully and analyze these four paragraphs in detail.

1. Tibet, China (the first flying) (1) What animal has Daisy met? (an antelope ) (2) What problem was it facing? (over-hunting) (3) What about its feeling? (sad) Task: Think about the deep meaning behind the example:

We should protect animals! 2. Zimbabwe (the second flying) (1) What animal has Daisy met? (an elephant ) (2) What about its feeling? (excited) (3) What about its life in the past? (get killed ) (4) Why did the farmers kill them? (5) What was the government’s help?

Take photos, hunt for a fee & give the money to the local farmers Farmers’ attitudes towards elephants Past Now

Task: Think about the deep meaning behind the example:

Some wildlife is under protection! 3. A rainforest (the third flying) (1) What animal has Daisy met? (a monkey ) dislike like Reason Destroyed their farms Farmers made a lot of money from it Places she went Tibet Zimbabwe Rainforest Animal she met an antelope an elephant a monkey

(2) What did it discover?

A millipede insect, a powerful drug, prevent … from being bitten

No rainforest, no animals and no drugs Task: Think about the deep meaning behind the example:

Protecting wildlife is to protect ourselves! Step4 post- reading: What did Daisy learn from her travel? 1)

She had learned that the wild animals were being killed or hunted. And they are dying out. 2) She knows how the animals in the rain forest live together 3) She also learned it necessary to protect the wild animals. Step5 Group-discussion: What should we do to protect endangered animals?

We should: 1. protect their habitats and create new ones. 2. stop killing & hunting. 3. stop buying clothes made of their furs. 4. collect money to help them. 5. educate people to be aware of the importance of wildlife protection. 6. As the government……. (enjoy another short video about wildlife protection in America.) Step6 Homework: Write a short passage about Wildlife Protection

Blackboard design

Unit 4 Wildlife Protection How Daisy learned to help wildlife

Tibet

antelope

A flying carpet

Zimbabwe

elephant

Rainforest

monkey